THE MOSES BASKET STORY

Associated with throne-inheritance rites, a child went through a physical as well as a spiritual birth.

In this Horus-myth an important feature was that Horus' mother, Isis, appeared together with her twin sister Nephthys, the goddess, so that the god-child Horus was conceived by Isis and "born", in a figurative sense, by Nephthys. Therefore, the delivery was painless - but the ambiguity was understood and reported so that in reality Isis conceived him, and yet another sister of Isis, Hathor (the goddess of the sky), nursed him.

Likewise the rabbis describe the little boat of Moses as "the little ark" on the Nile). From this ark, the king-god was then to be revived, with the help of the goddess Isis, in the image of his and Isis' newborn son Horus, a god-child that was to become the new king. In other words - again, exactly like Moses.

where it will appear that Moses acted as the divinely born Horus-child, the new king, who arrived on the Nile in Osiris/Horus' ark.

This "container" was no ordinary rush basket - the Hebrew Bible explicitly states that it was a boat woven in papyrus, and was "an ark", i.e. shaped as a rectangular chest or coffin with a lid, in Hebrew theba, an equivalent of the previously mentioned Egyptian word debat (debet): 'ark', ‘chest',
In addition, Moses was supplied with a nurse, who correspondingly filled the role of the goddess Nephthys. Royal nurses were recruited from families of great reputation - as one example, the later pharaoh Tuthmosis III made his nurse's daughter, Sat-iah, his chief wife long before he married an Egyptian daughter of the king. It is also a well documented situation that in the era of the kings of the 18th dynasty
The fact that the Rabbinical Writings and also several ancient writers mention the young Moses as already having great abilities as a general and a military tactician in the service of the then ruling pharaoh.

Several Rabbinical Writings also mention that this wet-nurse and (surrogate) mother "delivered without pain". This is in total correspondence with her role in the mystery play as the goddess Nephthys who was also nurse, reserve mother, and "delivered without pain" since she is not proclaimed as the biological mother of the (Horus) child.

Exactly as in the original story "a sister" was particularly mentioned in connection with the breastfeeding. From the story in the Bible it appears that similarly Moses' so-called sister, who was waiting in the bulrushes, arranged for the baby's mother to act as wet-nurse - again in similarity with the Horus-myth, where the mother (Isis) of the Horus-child arranged for a (her) sister (Nephthys), who was waiting in the bulrushes, to act as wet nurse. This similar relationship supports the assumption that there exists a connection to the later text of the Hebrew Bible, in which the sister is not at all mentioned as a little girl, but referred to by the word "the young woman". These relationships can be documented as follows:

That a mother with royal connections, as in this case Pharaoh's Daughter, thus "taking over" her child, is a known ritual: - "adoption of pharaoh"

The pharaonic child on the Nile is delivered by the god: - this is directly to be read in the inscriptions about Egyptian kings

And according to the Bible and the Rabbinical Writings, the woman who nursed Moses already had two children.